Book

Dr M E J Hughes’s new book on the library of Samuel Pepys is included in an article about current interest in the diarist published in the recent TLS: Eye on posterity (March 16). The article by the historian Arnold Hunt shows how recent scholarship has opened up the study of Pepys as a reader […]

Dr Edward Wilson-Lee is doing a book reading and signing at Stanfords Books and Maps London on Tuesday 15 March from 18.30 to 20.00 for his new book Shakespeare in Swahililand. To celebrate the Ides of March in this Shakespeare anniversary year, Dr Wilson-Lee tells the story of how Julius Caesar started a riot in Uganda in the […]

Dr Edward Wilson-Lee’s new book Shakespeare in Swahililand is published on 10 March with HarperCollins. The launch party takes place at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, also on 10 March. Shakespeare in Swahililand is the story of a search across eastern and central Africa to recover the extraordinary and unknown story of the part played by Shakespeare’s works in […]

Dr Raphael Lyne’s new book Memory and Intertextuality in Renaissance Literature is published in February 2016 (Cambridge University Press, 2016). Using ideas from cognitive science this work sets up some new ways of thinking about how poems remember one another, but keeps coming back to the idea that the poems and plays are themselves essays and […]

Dr Edward Wilson-Lee speaks to author and broadcaster Jenni Mills about his new book Shakespeare in Swahililand at the Independent Bath Festival of Literature on Thursday 3 March, from 4.30 to 5.30. Shakespeare in Swahililand, published on 10 March with HarperCollins, is the story of a search across eastern and central Africa to recover the extraordinary and unknown story of the […]

Dr Bonnie Lander Johnson’s new book Chastity in Early Stuart Literature and Culture is published with Cambridge University Press. In the book, Lander Johnson explores early modern ideas of chastity, demonstrating how crucial early Stuart thinking on chastity was to political, medical, theological and moral debates, and that it was also a virtue that governed […]

The Modern Language Association of America today announced it will award the thirteenth Morton N. Cohen Award for a Distinguished Edition of Letters. The winning edition is The Collected Works of Gerard Manley Hopkins, volumes 1 and 2: Correspondence, edited by R. K. R. Thornton, of the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, and Catherine Phillips, […]

Drs Trudi Tate and Kate Kennedy publish a new edited collection of essays looking at the legacy of the First World War through the lens of the creative arts. As a specialist in the literature of conflict, Dr Tate explores the ways in which writers expressed the impact of trauma on families – and child rearing […]